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TheSneeze Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 1226 Northern Nevada Gender:	Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build Reply #615 - 05/25/22 at 15:56:14 Outside of some "shiny" wear marks, there is no visible pits on the fourth gear. Here are the input shaft gears. Same thing, just some "shiny" areas.
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TheSneeze Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 1226 Northern Nevada Gender:	Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build Reply #616 - 05/25/22 at 15:57:34 This is the gears on the counterbalance shaft to the crank. Are those what you wanted to see?
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TheSneeze Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 1226 Northern Nevada Gender:	Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build Reply #617 - 05/25/22 at 16:18:30 trans gears
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TheSneeze Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 1226 Northern Nevada Gender:	Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build Reply #618 - 05/25/22 at 16:30:22 Yup...
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Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build
Reply #619 - 05/26/22 at 12:52:19

Thanks for the pics Sneezy. Things look pretty clean in there. Your balancer drive gears have a very nice surface finish.

Can you do a good visual inspection of your 4th gear (circled in yellow) and see if you can detect any pitting in the contact surfaces on the teeth. Note, the input gears rotate counter-clockwise when viewed from the left-hand side of the engine, so when you are looking directly down at the gear teeth through the opening in the case the load bearing surface is facing up.

On your 1st gear, what is the area circled in white?

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Reply #620 - 05/26/22 at 13:48:00

DBM - that white mark appears to be a drip of gasket sealer that was squished into the valley between two teeth. I can't get anything down in there to scrape at it other than a long phillips screwdriver. Yes, I used a JIS since it has a pointier tip. I could not disturb it at all. There are no other instances of this on any other gear surfaces.

The fourth gear teeth have the same usual wear pattern, but no visible pitting that I can see. This bike (supposedly) had 9800 on the clock when I got it. The bottom end looks good enough that I was going to leave it alone. I also have another spare motor (condition unknown) that I can do exploratory surgery on and rebuild if necessary if this bottom end doesn't like that added power in the top end.

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DragBikeMike Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 4401 Honolulu	Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build Reply #621 - 05/27/22 at 14:31:57 Thanks Sneezy. Good info to have. I appreciate the pics and you doing the visual. Best regards, Mike BTW, clutch release cam holding up good. Action smooth. No drift on adjustment. It’s a keeper.
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TheSneeze Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 1226 Northern Nevada Gender:	Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build Reply #622 - 05/27/22 at 15:27:32 All dressed up and no way to weld... found all the pressure had leaked out of my weld gas bottle. Had to run into town for a new bottle. A big thanks to Dan P for the flat pattern for his battery box design. I had it all ready to weld up before I found the bottle empty.
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TheSneeze Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 1226 Northern Nevada Gender:	Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build Reply #623 - 05/27/22 at 15:28:03 bottom view - it uses the frame mounts on the bottom, with a new strip welded to the frame for the top.
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TheSneeze Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 1226 Northern Nevada Gender:	Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build Reply #624 - 05/27/22 at 15:30:26 I made a couple of brackets for the hold down strap that will be welded on the sides.
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TheSneeze Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 1226 Northern Nevada Gender:	Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build Reply #625 - 05/27/22 at 17:08:21 I have a couple holes that still need filling, but it's coming out nice for welding thin sheet metal. The material is 18 gage steel paintlock (pre-primered). Battery is tucked up out of view with the side covers on, just the front corner of the box can be seen.
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TheSneeze Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 1226 Northern Nevada Gender:	Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build Reply #626 - 05/27/22 at 17:11:14 Support strap is welded in.
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Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build
Reply #627 - 05/28/22 at 12:32:45

Filled the minor holes (I hate welding thin sheet metal!), added the brackets for the battery strap, and dressed it down. Ready for blasting and powder coat!

I need to address the chain guard mounts now. After I have those welded to the swing arm (shouldn't have cut the brackets off...) it will be time to tear this beast back down to the frame. The to-do list prior to sending all the parts to powder coat is growing smaller! Fork sliders, triple clamps, front turn signal mounts, frame, swing arm, seat sub frame, battery box, mid control bracket, and muffler support bracket will all be metallic silver.

Oh yeah... gage mount. I better get off my butt and get the gages coming so I can make that, too. Roll Eyes

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TheSneeze Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 1226 Northern Nevada Gender:	Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build Reply #628 - 05/28/22 at 12:37:13 The battery is sitting on a 3/16" thick sheet of Buna rubber. It is also lining the sides.
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TheSneeze Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 1226 Northern Nevada Gender:	Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build Reply #629 - 05/28/22 at 14:00:13 Stubby chain guard is in da house!
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